--- title: "Fraps Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Fraps. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Fraps is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Screen Recording Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/) / [Fraps](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/) / Fraps Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/fraps-profile/alternatives/) # Fraps User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 3.9/5 - Total reviews: 12 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.8/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 3.7/5 - Functionality: 3.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 2 reviews (17%) - 4 stars: 7 reviews (58%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (25%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ## Fraps customer reviews Showing reviews 1-12 of 12 (page 1). ### A basic free software that every gamer needs - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Reinaldo M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fraps helped me a lot in monitoring my computer's frames per second performance in many games. Also, I recorded some gameplay to share with my friends, and it really does the job. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software has a fairly intuitive interface. Also, their preferences are highly customizable #### Cons Fraps is a pretty basic app. That is why there is not much that can be criticized for a program that just monitors the number of frames of your programs and records your screen. However, the interface is getting old, and it's a bit outdated. --- ### Fraps for easy record. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Yusuf T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Program Development - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I love how simple Fraps is, just one click and your done. Quality of videos great, audio is great too. #### Cons First of all Fraps,takes up too much space on your computer. There is nothing special options,has fewer features than its competitors. #### Reasons for switching to Fraps Because Bandicam have webcam options. --- ### Records well but performs poorly - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Askin A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered While I was preparing a video for Youtube, I was taking my screen recording with this program. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It had a strong community when I was using it. This made it easy to use. #### Cons The size of the saved files is incredibly large. When you record while playing games, it makes the computer very tiring. For this reason, both the game and the video are badly affected. --- ### Fraps is quick - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Emirhan S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros It is very easy and fast to record and edit in Fraps. #### Cons It does not have enough hardware, the features it contains are limited. but let's not forget that it offers free and faster usage. --- ### Great video maker - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Derek R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Love this a lot. I play video games and this works great for that. Worth getting. #### Cons Dose slow down PC a little but still works great. --- ### It's Ok - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Michael C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Fraps was ok for some basic screen capturing needs but it is about time it had a major update or revamp. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros I'd say that the thing that Fraps has going for it is that it's super easy to use, super easy to install and it's a relatively lightweight software. #### Cons Now when it comes to the cons. It's not that it's bad, it's just not good in comparison to what the new and free software are doing. Not to mention the dreaded watermark. Anyone who had to screen capture something knows what I'm talking about. It's time Fraps revamped or updated into something more modern and with more features. --- ### One of most popular game recorders! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good app, perfect fps, perfect settings, just disk space... #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros High fps, metric overlay, easy to setup, simple interface. #### Cons When saving a video, it is using too much disk space. --- ### Fraps Is A Great Tool For Recording - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Derek V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered While not perfect as nothing is, for what I wanted I got what I asked for. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I liked how easy it is to get started. It is very effective at recording gaming content and doesn't require you to be tech savvy. #### Cons It could lag in recording at times and the file size could be a big large. --- ### Pretty simple tool for FPS counting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Hakob A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, Fraps is a good light-weight app, easy to install and use. Hopefully, the developers can improve it over the time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The main advantage of Fraps is that it's very simple to deploy, configure and use. If your task is to only count FPS used software and games, it can be very useful. #### Cons However, when it comes to other functionalities of Fraps, it is very mediocre. I definitely wouldn't recommend using it for screen recordings: first, it will consume a lot of memory from your precious hard drive capacity, second, the videos come somewhat laggy (at least based on my personal experience). --- ### Great software for recording - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ibrahim S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great video and audio quality. Small and simple design. Benchmarking feature is a plus too. #### Cons Recorded videos take too much space on your storage. --- ### Ottimo per iniziare ma non in migliore - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Farming - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Il prodotto è ottimo per iniziare, l'ho usato per diversi anni e me la cavo durante la registrazione. Ho deciso di cambiare perché i cali di frame erano rilevanti #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Il programma è molto semplice da installare e da configurare, riconosce le finestre di gioco molto facilmente #### Cons La registrazione andava bene tutto sommato, tranne per improvvisi cali di frame immotivati da parte di Fraps che hanno reso l'esperienza frustrante --- ### Fraps Examination - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Enes Y. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros File sharing and Screenshot features are very useful. I liked these two features the most. #### Cons The delays and the inability to capture sound were the things that turned me off from this application. --- Fraps Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice